WhatsApp recently began offering usernames, designed to help people connect while keeping their phone numbers private. Now, the Meta-owned company said it will allow high-profile names to be claimed only by legitimate owners as it tries to prevent impersonation on the messaging platform, Bloomberg News...
Meta is developing a prediction market platform that would initially allow betting with play money before the company considers enabling real stakes, Seeking Alpha reported Tuesday (June 23), citing a paywalled article by The New York Times. Using play money would allow the new platform...
Meta and EssilorLuxottica have launched a new collection of artificial intelligence (AI) glasses called Meta Glasses that is designed to be accessible to a broader audience than the Ray-Ban Meta, Oakley Meta, Meta Ray-Ban Display and Ray-Ban Meta Optics AI glasses the companies already offer. The new Meta Glasses start at $299, Essilor Luxottica...
Meta has invested $900 million in India’s Cred, and hired its founder to oversee WhatsApp. The deal values Cred at $4.5 billion, and gives Meta a minority share in the company, though no access to customer information, the startup said in a Monday (June 22)...
Several Meta-owned platforms experienced outages Friday morning (June 12). Downdetector, which tracks user reports of services that are down or experiencing issues, showed that users reported outages on Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger. Meta Vice President of Communications Andy Stone said in a Friday post...
Meta wants to give more customers a chance to experience its hardware in person. To that end, Best Buy on Monday (June 8) announced the launch of the “Meta Lab @ Best Buy” partnership, which involves establishing “900-square-foot experiential spaces,” for shoppers to test Meta’s...
Meta has postponed plans to share its latest artificial intelligence models with developers several times, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday (June 3). As of Tuesday (June 2), the tech giant had no plans to release the new model, according to the report, which cited...
Meta launched a business AI agent on WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger. CEO Mark Zuckerberg told at a conference in London that it will “eventually help you run your whole business,” The Wall Street Journal reported. But can it? Also, would you want it to? The...
Meta has introduced an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that is designed to help businesses communicate with their customers through the company’s WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram platforms. The new Meta Business Agent is based on one that is already being used by businesses on WhatsApp and Messenger. Now, it’s being expanded to businesses of...